In 2001, a nearly insolvent software company chose a brutal third option: shrink to 75 people and build the cloud network nobody in retail wanted to maintain. Twenty-five years later, that network moves more than 750 million transactions a year - and its next test is whether all that memory can make AI useful.

Glia's first chief marketing officer has spent three decades making enterprise technology sound human - with customer evidence, measurable growth and an unfussy instinct for what matters.

Before the algorithms came the warehouse, the kitchen and the boiler room. Jason Radisson turned an unusually wide education in work into a career scaling marketplaces - and a practical theory of how companies should treat the people who keep them moving.